a Labour budget that lists estimated labour, broken down by skills and/or persons.

Creating a project

Go to the project template page, edit it, copy all the text, create a new page, paste the template text in, and edit appropriately.

In addition to a wiki page, a project record must be created in the database in order for time and expenses to be logged against it. Contact the Communication steward when you create a new project so the database can be updated. You will then receive a project ID number that, when plugged into the template on your new project page, will automagically display labour and vehicle use billed to the project.

Projects may be within an individual steward's budget authority, or the necessary financial outlay for a project may be agreed at a Business meeting. Projects that have been agreed at a meeting should have the template {{agreement|date}} at the top, where date is the date of the meeting in which the agreement is made, in the format "YYYYMMDD" — it will then show up as a link to the proper meeting minutes.

Completing projects

A project is deemed completed when

the project goal has been attained and the project need is satisfied,

the financial expenditures and income are realized and reconciled, and

the labour expended is accounted and optionally allocated to co-op shares or paid out in cash.

When complete:

the category for the project is changed from [[Category:Projects]] to [[Category:Projects, completed]].

there must be a section called ==Final accounting== summarizing income and expenses. Contact the Finance steward for final accounting information.

Here is a list of smallish projects that need funding -- join in on the fun by helping out on one or more!

Projects in process

Following is a table of projects in process, followed by a table of completed projects. Click on any project name for complete detail. Projects that have been edited recently are at the top by default — click on the icon next to any column name to sort by that column, either ascending or descending.

To further educate ourselves and the general public about the practice of Permaculture, to increase EcoReality's presence in the Permaculture world, to possibly recruit new EcoReality members, to generate income for local Permaculture instructors.

The visual, noise, and atmospheric pollution from Fulford-Ganges Road is a constant drain or our collective psyches. We fear for children wandering out on the road. It keeps us from planting things that we think might pick up pollution. Visitors and prospective members mention it as an eyesore.

From the other direction, it is like living in a fish bowl. We find ourselves being unduly influenced by individual and collective perceptions of what others see. We need to keep a good public image, yet without being facetious or shallow about the strictly visual aspects of public perception. We want to be able to have a mess now and then, without worrying about what the greater Salt Spring community thinks about our mess.

To track project progress milestones and deadlines, and to allocate income, expense, labour and other resources to profit-centres, EcoReality needs an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that allows collaboration, transparency, and timely reporting of all project data.